Author's Note: Sorry about the wait, you guys. Just be patient, I'm having some family issues that are taking the majority of my spare time right now. Thanks for the reviews, though!
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Jack stared at Daniel for a full thirty seconds before looking down at his watch, and then over at the calendar on the wall.
"What are you doing?" Daniel asked.
"Checking to see if April Fool's day has somehow managed to sneak up on me while I wasn't looking."
"That was last week, Jack." Daniel frowned. "Would I joke about something like that?"
"You must be, Daniel," Jack told him. "But I can't for the life of me figure out the punch line."
"I know how you feel, but I'm telling you; he wants to go to London to find some place called Diagon Alley, where he's going to set about buying a wand…"
"He told you that?"
"Yes."
"Did you tell him there aren't any magic wands?"
Daniel shrugged, looking frustrated, "I tried. You try; maybe he'll listen to you. He won't listen to me."
Jack looked at the calendar once more, just to double check that it wasn't his birthday and Daniel wasn't leading him into some kind of surprise birthday party, and then with a sigh that was mixed annoyance and disbelief, he stood up and headed for the door. It wasn't like he was really doing his paperwork, anyways.
"He's in the library?"
"Yes."
Daniel fell into step beside him as they walked through the corridors of the SGC to a room that Teal'c frequented often, but Daniel and Jack rarely did. Daniel because if he needed to research something, he'd use the Internet on the computer in his office, and Jack, because… well, because. He liked to hang out with Daniel and Carter, soaking up their brilliance by osmosis. It just was a longer process than he'd figured it would be, that was all.
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Teal'c was sitting in an overly padded easy chair, one brought into the room at his request, with a book in his hand. He was so into the book that he didn't even look up when Jack and Daniel entered the room, although both men were certain he was aware of their presence.
"Whatcha doing, Teal'c?"
"I am reading, O'Neill."
Daniel gave Jack a look that plainly told him if he asked a dumb question he was bound to get a dumb answer. Jack scowled.
"What are you reading?"
"It is a book, O'Neill."
Jack rolled his eyes, and then scowled at Daniel's grin.
"So… Daniel tells me you want to go to London…"
Now he'd find out if Daniel had just been screwing with him or not.
Teal'c looked up from the book.
"Indeed. I wish to learn more about the hidden society of witches and wizards, and wish to purchase a magic wand of my own."
"The hidden society of witches and wizards?"
"Yes."
Jack scratched the side of his neck, wondering what the hell Teal'c was talking about.
"There isn't a secret society of witches and wizards, Teal'c."
"There is, O'Neill," Teal'c said, handing the book in his hand over to Jack. "I have been reading all about it the last few days."
Jack looked down at the book in his hand.
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets…?"
"What's this?"
"It is the History of a young human boy who, like yourself, does not know of the magical world hidden from him, until he finds out he is accepted to a school for young witches and wizards – like himself."
Jack frowned, turning the book over and reading the back.
"Teal'c, this isn't real. It's just a book. A story."
"That is what Daniel Jackson said as well. I find the notion to be intriguing, however."
"There's no such thing as magic," Daniel said, trying again, now that he had back up.
"That is what they wish for you Muggles to believe."
Jack looked up from the book.
"What did you call him?"
"A Muggle," Teal'c answered. "It is the term the wizards and witches use to refer to anyone who is non magical."
"And it tells you that in this book?"
"No. It told me in the first installment of the History. This one is the second."
"There's more than one?"
"There are several."
"Teal'c, it's fantasy. It's not real."
"It's just a story meant to entertain," Daniel added.
"How do you know this, O'Neill?"
Jack spread his hands.
"Everyone knows it. There's no magic."
"Because the wizards have managed to hide their secret world."
"Teal'c… we're in the Air Force. The Military of the greatest country on the face of the planet. We have all kinds of secrets that no one would ever believe, and we've personally been places that no one would ever imagine. Don't you think if there was a secret wizarding world, we'd know about it?"
"Major Carter knows about it," Teal'c said. "The rest of you do not because it is a closely guarded secret – to keep the Muggles from asking the wizards to do everything for them."
"Carter told you about this?" Jack asked, holding up the book.
"Indeed. It was she who suggested I read the History."
Jack scowled, looking down at the book.
"Then Daniel and I need to go have a little talk with Major Carter…"
